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“ Ọmọbìnrin ẹkùn
 Wòlíì obìnrin ti òrìṣà mẹ́ta náà
 Eni ti o ni opa ase lati se akoso areonakakafo meji ti orun meje
 Ìyá ẹlẹ́sẹ̀ mẹ́jọ ti òrìṣà mẹ́wàá
 Ti nṣàn ninu ẹyin ti idì
 Ologoṣẹ oloju mẹwa ti o súfèé awọn orin ọdẹ
 Ayaba igbo ti gbogbo eda beru
 Ẹniti ibusun rẹ jẹ igi dudu
 Kọlu egbegberun lori rẹ osi
 Ẹgbẹẹgbẹrun mẹwa ni apa ọtun rẹ
 Ẹni tí ẹsẹ̀ rẹ̀ dàbí kọ̀lọ̀kọ̀lọ̀
 Sugbon tun fẹ awọn ijapa
 Gbogbo ale lo n korin oriki
 Ni ọjọ naa, awọn ilẹkẹ ẹgbẹ-ikun rẹ ti ṣokunkun"

“ The daughter of a tigeress 
The prophetess of the three headed python 
The one who has the opa ase to rule the two areeonakakafo of the seven skies 
The eigh legged mother of the ten deities 
Flowing in the egg of an eagle
The ten eyed sparrow that whistle the songs of the hunter 
The queen of the forest that all creatures fear
The one whose bed is a black stick 
Striking thousands on her left 
Ten thousands on her right 
The one whose legs are like the fox 
But also like the tortoises
Every night she sings the oriki 
The day, her waist beads tinkles“
Credit to the owner of the art

MORENIKEJI

After trying to concentrate In math class, I asked a girl beside me what we were going to have next. 


At first, the girl looked surprised, the way she looked at me was if I was an alien.


I don't blame her, I blame myself. Not only I don't attend class, if I did, I just don't talk. it's just I'm a Spirit.


I'm a quiet person, wherever I am, no one notices my presence. My mom always tell me to smile, that many people are scared to talk to me. Just because of my poker face. 


I do smile, infact I smile alot, that is only when I am with my mom. She is the only reason I smile, so why should I smile, if others are not my mom.


The girl replied in mockery hidden in fear "En-ede Gẹẹsi (En-english)" 


English! Ah, my day has just started to get bad. ' Mama, gbadura fun mi (Mommy, pray for me)'


I need to concentrate, I have to make her happy with me, my results, my changes. 


The English teacher was a white man, we usually call him ' Ọpọlọ funfun (White frog) ' . The reason because he sounds exactly like a frog. To me, he looks exactly like a frog. 


I heard that during his teaching, no students or teachers must not speak Yoruba. if it's a student, he will ask he or she to " Get lost" according to him. And that student must pay a fine of ten Kobo to him, been the head master of the school and teachers are not exempted. 


So we are all forced to speak a language that isn't ours . I hated it, I didn't know how to get by with the jargons of a language.


" Good morning students" The frog had entered the class with that pregnant stomach of his.


" Good morning sir" All of us stood up and Chorused the greetings.


Just his sight made me want to puke. I have heard different rumours about him. They were not good for a white freak like Him. 


I heard he was a promiscuous man who practices sodomy. If the rumours were true, he would have been burnt to death by the villagers.


Disgusting, I just had to put up with him, so I can pass my exams and make my mom happy.


Jehovah, I will be staying in this class for An hour and twenty minutes. God let the world end.


Chapter 12: Ibere mi (My beginning)12